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https://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/01/house-77-by-dioniso-lab/#commentsTue, 01 Mar 2011 13:43:46 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=118720Portuguese studio dIONISO LAB have completed a house in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, with a façade comprising aluminium shutters perforated with symbols. The concertinaed metal shutters sit in front of full-height windows, creating a balcony area between the two façades and providing privacy when required. Symbols relevant to the local area, a fishing town, puncture the metal

Its great cultural richness became an interesting stimulus to the project.

In fact, the house was an opportunity to revitalize some of the city's memories and to participate in the panoply of colours and materials that characterise the street.

The house is simple... it is organized in a vertical and hierarchical way.

The social areas are on the inferior floors and the private areas on the superior levels.

To achieve great visual amplitudes and dynamic interconnections between spaces, the interior was structured in half floors.

The width of the plot decided the stair. In fact, it became the heart of the house.

A wall painted with Blue Klein emphasizes its importance and continuity through the spaces.

The west facade is covered by aluminum venetian blinds that not only defend the interior from the insulation but also open the house to a small garden.

At east, the house gets its identity.

The intimacy is guaranteed by stainless steel panels, perforated with the "siglas poveiras".

These symbols are a proto-writing system once used as a way of communication and to mark personal and fishing belongings.

Also, they were hereditary and constituted an important family legacy that was transmitted by inheritance through generations, evolving with new combinations.

In this way, the house, in the very centre of "Bairro Norte", shares some of the city's memories and references with the population and revitalizes a legacy that has been progressively forgotten and abandoned.

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]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/01/house-77-by-dioniso-lab/feed/23Canteen at primary school no1 by Cadilhe & Fontourahttps://www.dezeen.com/2008/06/10/canteen-at-primary-school-no1-by-cadilhe-fontoura/
https://www.dezeen.com/2008/06/10/canteen-at-primary-school-no1-by-cadilhe-fontoura/#commentsTue, 10 Jun 2008 15:45:18 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/2008/06/10/canteen-at-primary-school-no1-by-cadilhe-fontoura/A new primary school canteen by architect José Cadilhe of Cadilhe & Fontoura has been completed in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. Photographs by FG+SG Fotografia de Arquitectura. Here's some information from Cadilhe & Fontoura: -- CANTEEN AT PRIMARY SCHOOL Nº1 The Primary School nº1 in Póvoa de Varzim is a renovated example of Plano dos

The Primary School nº1 in Póvoa de Varzim is a renovated example of Plano dos Centenários (Plan of the Centenaries) developed in 1941, whose typology (Douro) was designed by Rogério de Azevedo, a renowned architect from Oporto. This plan was a response to the increasing necessity and need to obtain a wide coverage of elementary schools throughout the country and is, still today, a legacy that is well present on today’s network of schools.

In this sense, and because respecting the original traces of the school was intended, the volume of the canteen drives ways and assumes its own autonomy with an abstract gesture that establishes new relations in the school and the exterior spaces. Its location sets boundaries to the playground to the north, and allows the definition of new circulations and connections between the buildings. Beyond that, the canteen poses itself as defining element of a new scenario. The unbroken and organic line that cause differentiating sequences of perspectives, participating, with the same purpose, in the energetic and spontaneous movements of children.

The volume is characterized by the exterior contrast between the predominant white and the black of the windows frames, the foundations and the covering that sets the main access. Thus, a dialog is prompted with the balanced volume and the glassy structure of the Library’s café, transforming the limit notions and dimming the frontiers, therefore obtaining a stimulating relation between the equipments of high educational and cultural responsibility.

In the interior, one can watch a predominance use of the colors that set the distinction of spaces and their uses. It is through it that the canteen is cheering the dynamics of the dinning area creating differing sensations, moods and atmospheres; deliberately created to provide these ambiences to the children, giving them the chance to pick their spot and place in the intimacy of the canteen.